Federal Judge Sets Trial Dates for Two Hormone Replacement Therapy Cases in Arkansas – Thousands More Pending

United States District Judge William Wilson in Little Rock, Arkansas, has tentatively set the trial dates for two cases against Pfizer and Wyeth alleging the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medications they manufactured and marketed caused the female plaintiffs to develop breast cancer. These two lawsuits were selected from some 3,500 now pending in the Little Rock area.HRT had been suspected of increasing the risk of a number of serious medical problems, including heart disease and invasive breast cancer for some time. It was only after the National Institutes of Health ended a study on combination HRT three years earlier than planned in July 2002, because of concern over these risks, that thousands of lawsuits were filed against the various manufacturers of HRT drugs.

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